Xiaolu Guo to panel at Guernica/Free World Collaboration
On Mon 3 Feb 2014, Xiaolu Guo - poet, film-maker and author of the soon to published I Am China - will take part in a panel discussion at an evening to celebrate the launch of a special edition of Guernica magazine focused on free expression, produced in collaboration with Free Word, in association with ARTICLE 19 and English PEN.
In the form of essays, interviews, poetry and fiction, the magazine features contributions from leading writers exploring some of the cornerstone questions of free expression today:
What does free expression mean in societies who have suffered atrocities? How can this freedom fall under imperial control? How can it be fought for through civil disobedience? What does it mean to safeguard free expression for those we revile? And who guards this freedom online in a fractured and conglomerated internet?
To celebrate the launch of this edition, we?ll be addressing some of these questions in a panel discussion at Free Word Centre. Hosted by Kamila Shamsie, the panel includes Guernica?s Editor Michael Archer, novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, and writer Mirza Waheed, one of the contributors to the issue.
This event is by invitation only, but if you?d like to find out more or to attend, please contact: lauren@freewordcentre.com
In the form of essays, interviews, poetry and fiction, the magazine features contributions from leading writers exploring some of the cornerstone questions of free expression today:
What does free expression mean in societies who have suffered atrocities? How can this freedom fall under imperial control? How can it be fought for through civil disobedience? What does it mean to safeguard free expression for those we revile? And who guards this freedom online in a fractured and conglomerated internet?
To celebrate the launch of this edition, we?ll be addressing some of these questions in a panel discussion at Free Word Centre. Hosted by Kamila Shamsie, the panel includes Guernica?s Editor Michael Archer, novelist and filmmaker Xiaolu Guo, and writer Mirza Waheed, one of the contributors to the issue.
This event is by invitation only, but if you?d like to find out more or to attend, please contact: lauren@freewordcentre.com